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Family Brothers Market
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 5, 2025
- address49 Cottage St, East Boston 02128
Is Family Brothers Market clean?
Family Brothers Market is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 5, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Family Brothers Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Compliance with Food Law (P) • Observed tamales without labels. Provide source evidence in form of invoices. PIC states that it doesn't know and will ask the owner. Remove if not from a reputable source. Mangos in liquid at ambient temperature. PIC states they are for personal use. Remove and discontinue storing them at the establishment.criticalCompliance with Food Law (P) • Observed tamales without labels. Provide source evidence in form of invoices. PIC states that it doesn't know and will ask the owner. Remove if not from a reputable source. Mangos in liquid at ambient temperature. PIC states they are for personal use. Remove and discontinue storing them at the establishment.
- ⚠️Compliance with Food Law (Pf) • Severtal package products without labels. provide.Compliance with Food Law (Pf) • Severtal package products without labels. provide.
- ⚠️Manual Warewashing Equipment Hot Water Sanitization Temperatures (P) • No evidence of warewashing. Sanitzing bay filled with syrup bottles. Provide proper warewashing -Wash-Rinse-Sanitize.criticalManual Warewashing Equipment Hot Water Sanitization Temperatures (P) • No evidence of warewashing. Sanitzing bay filled with syrup bottles. Provide proper warewashing -Wash-Rinse-Sanitize.
- ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Squeezing Press Machine soiled with dried up food debris. Clean and sanitize properly.(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Squeezing Press Machine soiled with dried up food debris. Clean and sanitize properly.
- ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • No paper towels at the serving line hand sink. Provide.Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • No paper towels at the serving line hand sink. Provide.
- ⚠️Health Permit for 2025 not renewed.Renew.Health Permit for 2025 not renewed.Renew.
When was Family Brothers Market last inspected?
Family Brothers Market has 17 inspections on record going back to January 26, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 23, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 7, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| August 24, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 8, 2021 | — | |
| September 1, 2020 | Pass | |
| August 21, 2020 | Fail | |
| November 13, 2019 | Pass | |
| October 22, 2019 | Fail |
Family Brothers Market vs North End
North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 11% of them.
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How Boston grades restaurants
Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated February 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.